Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) Rating Increased to Hold at Wall Street Zen

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) was upgraded by stock analysts at Wall Street Zen from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report issued on Saturday.

A number of other equities analysts also recently commented on DLR. Sanford C. Bernstein raised their target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $218.00 to $232.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research note on Friday, April 24th. KeyCorp reiterated a “sector weight” rating on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a report on Friday. TD Cowen raised Digital Realty Trust from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and raised their price objective for the company from $192.00 to $222.00 in a research report on Friday. Weiss Ratings upgraded Digital Realty Trust from a “buy (b-)” rating to a “buy (b)” rating in a research note on Tuesday, July 14th. Finally, Citizens Jmp increased their target price on Digital Realty Trust from $220.00 to $250.00 and gave the company a “market outperform” rating in a research note on Monday, April 27th. One analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-three have given a Buy rating and six have assigned a Hold rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $217.38.

Digital Realty Trust Stock Performance

Digital Realty Trust stock opened at $198.63 on Friday. The company has a market cap of $69.80 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 96.42, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 4.88 and a beta of 1.03. Digital Realty Trust has a 12 month low of $146.23 and a 12 month high of $208.14. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.78, a current ratio of 1.59 and a quick ratio of 1.59. The stock’s 50-day moving average is $184.56 and its 200-day moving average is $180.71.

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) last posted its earnings results on Thursday, July 23rd. The real estate investment trust reported $1.21 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.98 by ($0.77). The business had revenue of $1.92 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.66 billion. Digital Realty Trust had a return on equity of 3.50% and a net margin of 11.80%.The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 28.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the company posted $1.87 EPS. Digital Realty Trust has set its FY 2026 guidance at 8.150-8.200 EPS. Equities analysts anticipate that Digital Realty Trust will post 8.04 earnings per share for the current year.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Large investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. Cherry Creek Investment Advisors Inc. grew its stake in Digital Realty Trust by 0.3% in the first quarter. Cherry Creek Investment Advisors Inc. now owns 18,745 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $3,378,000 after purchasing an additional 51 shares in the last quarter. Columbia Bank increased its holdings in Digital Realty Trust by 0.9% in the first quarter. Columbia Bank now owns 6,167 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $1,111,000 after buying an additional 53 shares during the last quarter. GHP Investment Advisors Inc. raised its stake in Digital Realty Trust by 9.1% during the first quarter. GHP Investment Advisors Inc. now owns 657 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $118,000 after buying an additional 55 shares in the last quarter. South Plains Financial Inc. raised its stake in Digital Realty Trust by 25.7% during the fourth quarter. South Plains Financial Inc. now owns 274 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $42,000 after buying an additional 56 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Twin Capital Management Inc. lifted its holdings in Digital Realty Trust by 1.1% during the 1st quarter. Twin Capital Management Inc. now owns 5,618 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $1,012,000 after buying an additional 59 shares during the last quarter. 99.71% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

Key Stories Impacting Digital Realty Trust

Here are the key news stories impacting Digital Realty Trust this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Digital Realty reported Q2 results that showed strong leasing activity, a record backlog, and higher renewal rents, which helped the company beat FFO expectations and improve its 2026 outlook.
• Positive Sentiment: The company raised FY 2026 adjusted FFO guidance to $8.15-$8.20 per share and lifted revenue guidance to $6.9 billion-$7.0 billion, signaling confidence in continued cloud and AI-driven demand.
• Positive Sentiment: TD Cowen upgraded Digital Realty Trust to Buy from Hold and raised its price target to $222 from $192, citing stronger data center demand. Article Title
• Positive Sentiment: JPMorgan also raised its price target on DLR to $235 from $230 and reiterated an Overweight rating, implying additional upside from current levels. Article Title
• Neutral Sentiment: Despite the upbeat guidance, the company’s reported EPS of $1.21 came in well below Wall Street expectations, so investors are balancing the earnings miss against the stronger operating trends.

About Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty Trust, Inc (NYSE: DLR) is a real estate investment trust that owns, acquires and operates carrier-neutral data centers and provides related colocation and interconnection solutions. The company focuses on large-scale, mission-critical facilities that support the physical infrastructure needs of cloud providers, enterprises, network operators and content companies. Digital Realty’s offerings are designed to enable secure, reliable and highly available IT infrastructure with an emphasis on power density, cooling, and physical security.

Digital Realty’s product set spans wholesale data center space, turnkey build-to-suit facilities, and retail colocation suites, complemented by interconnection services that allow customers to establish private and public connections to networks, cloud on-ramps and other ecosystem partners.